Boehner is now Speaker Boner. Because he's a dick.

I'm fairly certain that Speaker Tanner was born in Ecuador.

Judging by the orange color of his skin, I'm pretty sure Boehner was born in Oompa Loompa land.

I still see this as doublespeak, not quite as bad as what Glenn Beck does ("I'm not saying that **** is a murderer, but if he isn't, why doesn't he address [insert this or that spurious charge here]?"). Lots of the Republicans are doing it, basically avoiding saying that they actually believe that Obama was born here, but pretending they are by saying, well, I haven't seen any proof that he isn't, and Hawaii has said he is. Real confrontation of the birthers would be someone who says, "The President was born in this country, and therefore, is eligible to be President. End of debate."

I saw congratulate him for the time he openly gave out brides from the Tobacco Lobby on the House floor: http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/joh…

The guy's willing to bring corruption out into the open, he's a transparency advocate, Paul. Get behind this guy!

Until I see him wear his Chairman Mao uniform when he's handing out bribes from Red China, Boehner will never be a transparency advocate.

Follow the money.

And the fake tan.

Brides? Really? Cool!

@5- It'd be so much more awesome if your typo was real.

@8 Lol, yes... yes it would.

The Huffington Post (the "yeah right" alternate universe edition)...

In his first interview since being sworn in as Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday he personally didn't believe the conspiracy theories about President John McCain's murder of five illegal immigrants, but declined to speak out more forcefully against the rumors, saying he wouldn't tell other Republicans "what to think."

"Brian, when you come to the Congress of the United States, there are 435 of us," Boehner said. "We're nothing more than a slice of America. People come, regardless of party labels, they come with all kinds of beliefs and ideas. It's the melting pot of America. It's not up to me to tell them what to think. If someone feels very strongly that President McCain was responsible for those murders, who am I to call them a whackjob?"

@5 for the unintentional Seven Brides for Seven Boehners win.

The Republicans have lowered the bar so much that decent, thoughtful liberals actually believe Obama is a decent, thoughtful liberal.

You should know that John McCain was born in Panama. On a US Naval base since his father the admiral was stationed there, so it counts as being a US born citizen and that's fine, but that's where this crap came from. It was an effort to deflect attention from McCain's technicality and blossomed into another way to imply the message that Obama was an "other" to the mouth breathing hillbillies.

"to imply the message that Obama was an "other" to the mouth breathing hillbillies.

True, but the Obama-hatin' hillbillies don't have any patent on being nuts. Plenty of Bush-hatin' folks remain convinced he was behind 9/11.

Republicans have lowered the bar so much it's become a ditch.

Paul, I am lurving your last sentence there. Very choice verbiage, indeed.

And Urgutha @ 16, you are correct.

@15 There's a difference in saying someone was "behind 9/11" like the truthers and "responsible for 9/11" like some others believe. Personally I believe that his inaction and general incompetence allowed those attacks to happen where they MAY have been prevented, but that doesn't mean that I think he or anyone other than Al Qaida was "behind" them.
The message that should have come out of 9/11 is that Bush is incompetent and that his incompetence is putting us in grave personal danger. The conspiracy loons have prevented the real message from gaining traction simply by association.
My point above is that what seemed like an attempt to deflect criticism of McCain's birth in Panama (a non issue to the rational, but possibly an issue to the loons) turned into gold for the GOP in their larger effort to paint him as an "other".